The greatest Expo third baseman of all-time.

Brooks Robinson - lite.

As a HoMer, I don't see it, despite the career length.

Wallach was above average if he hit .260+. He hit .260+ 8 times in his career.

His mom was a professional baseball player, too.

In 1987, this was CLE third baseman Brook Jacoby's line: 300/387/541, for an OPS+ of 142.
And, the same season, Tim Wallach: 298/343/514, with an OPS+ of 121.
But one player had Tim Raines hitting ahead of him, and the other didn't.
Wallach's RBI: 123.
Jacoby's: 69.

GSfRB - hey, that's my example! I've been using it for years. (Wallach finished well ahead of Raines in the 1987 MVP voting.)

Makes the spreadsheet around 150. That's pretty good but not close.

In 1987, this was CLE third baseman Brook Jacoby's line: 300/387/541, for an OPS+ of 142.
And, the same season, Tim Wallach: 298/343/514, with an OPS+ of 121.
But one player had Tim Raines hitting ahead of him, and the other didn't.
Wallach's RBI: 123.
Jacoby's: 69.

It looks like Jacoby hit 6th or 7th much of the year, right behind Joe Carter and Cory Snyder. No wonder he didn't have any RBI's. If he'd hit 3rd behind Butler and Franco and Pat Tabler, he would've broke 100 easy. Good job Pat Corrales.

At the risk of making this a Brook Jacoby thread, I initially assumed that there was a rate stat difference, but Jacoby played in 155 games. Then I thought maybe it was some inherent bias against players with girly names, but he had already been an All-Star. So that 32 HR/.300 season was pretty impressive. But what struck me was this sequence:
120
137
73
101
90

In that 87 season, he not only hit 80% more HR than his 2nd best, he also was tough to strike out (he walked 75 times).

Jacoby also hit about nothing w/RISP.